Calpernia is an ex-Navy Desert Storm combat medic turned Old Hollywood Showgirl.
From her earliest beginnings as a child playing Bluegrass gospel fiddle in an isolated fundamentalist cult deep within the woods of Tennessee, she has experienced a dizzying ascension into her globe-spanning career as a cult-favorite musician, actress and activist for women's and LGBT rights.
She has starred in her own MTV/LOGO television series about dating as a transsexual woman, written a memoir, composed and arranged countless songs and participated in raising tremendous sums of money for causes close to her heart. She has been the face of Facebook's national "Airplane" commercial and OCC Makeup's national Sephora campaign.